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Fingering

noun

The placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument.

Touching something with the fingers.

Finger

verb

(past & past part. fingered; pres. part. fingering)

Feel or handle with the fingers. Synonym: thumb.

Examine by touch. Synonym: feel. "The customer fingered the sweater"

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Indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments.

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"Fingering" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the face and edged towards him fingering with his dripping fingers the hilt of ...

— Time and the Gods • Lord Dunsany [Edward J. M. D. Plunkett]

... weapon, and straightway I longed to draw it and end his life at once, while all sorts of plans for escape thereafter came into my mind. But I could not slay a helpless man, even this one, though I sat fingering the dagger for a long while. At last the evilness of these thoughts was plain to me; so quickly I cast the dagger overboard, and ...

— Wulfric the Weapon Thane • Charles W. Whistler

... hands on the handles, ready. They screamed and gesticulated with excitement. And Frank Drayton leaned back in his office chair and looked at them, and burst out laughing, because, he said, they made such funny faces. When they got to fingering their knives, he tilted back his chair and rocked with laughter. His sudden, incredible mirth frightened them and stopped the mutiny. She could see him, she could see his face jerked ...

— The Tree of Heaven • May Sinclair

... beside him in the night, And, fingering his red stone, I chase through endless forests dark Seeking that thing unknown, That which is not red deer or bull, But which by them ...

— Georgian Poetry 1916-17 - Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh • Various

... beach—Tony, John, and myself. Every article of underclothing in duplicate, a couple of guernseys and a coat or two were next to nakedness. We were bloated with clothes, but that northerly air, it seemed to be fingering our very skins. Yet there was hardly wind enough to fill the sail. Ricketty-rock, ricketty-rock, went the sweeps between the thole-pins, as we rowed to the fishing ground six miles or so away. Not one of us wished to shirk the heavy work. 'Twas ...

— A Poor Man's House • Stephen Sydney Reynolds

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